Harvest Festival
St Peter’s Church, Hepworth
Sunday 5th October, 9.30am
You are invited to join us for our Harvest Festival Service, followed by refreshments
DONATIONS WELCOME FOR THE FOOD BANK
ALL WELCOME… Read the whole story
WREATH MAKING WORKSHOP
Coming soon…
On Saturday 29th November
At The Hepworth Pavilion
Half day
Refreshments included
Look out for further details
News from St Peter’s, Hepworth
Church Roof Fund
A small team are meeting to look at funding applications to raise the necessary funds to retile the roof of this historic building.… Read the whole story
From the Rectory – October 2025
A HARVEST OF GENEROSITY
Dear Friends and Neighbours,
I love the beauty of the countryside around us at this time of year. This autumn I’ve especially noticed how many blackberries and sloes there are in the hedgerows, and the amazing colours of the trees as they begin to glow with wonderful autumn golds, reds, oranges and browns.… Read the whole story
An appeal for help
St Peter’s Church, Hepworth is one of many medieval churches in Suffolk and dates back mainly to the 14th and 15th century although there has been a church in the site since the Domesday Survey in 1086.… Read the whole story
From the Rectory – August 2025
A SUMMER OF REST
Dear Friends,
As we move into August the lanes are edged with wildflowers, the bees are humming in the churchyard, and the days are lengthening into those beautiful light evenings that feel like a gift.… Read the whole story
From the Rectory, June 2025
Dear Friends & Neighbours,
The month of June with its promise of Summer is traditionally the beginning of the wedding season… and I’m excited to have six weddings across the Benefice in my diary for this summer.… Read the whole story
From the Rectory
Dear Friends,
As I sit down to write this in the middle of March I’m struck by how much uncertainty fills our world at the moment. Every time we turn on the news, there seems to be more and more to worry about.… Read the whole story
St Peter’s
St Peter’s Church, Hepworth stands at the high point of the village, visible from a distance. It is an ancient building, Grade 2 listed, mostly dating to the 14 th and 15 th centuries, although there are stones from an earlier, 11 th or 12 th century building.… Read the whole story
From the Rectory
Dear Friends & Neighbours,
Happy New Year to you all !
We’re a month into the New Year already… and I wonder how many New Year resolutions have been kept so far and how many have already been forgotten ?… Read the whole story
Thank you to all the volunteers who sat in Hepworth Church during the “Ride + Stride” for the Suffolk Historical Churches Trust, on the 14th September.… Read the whole story
Hepworth Harvest Festival Service
Harvest Festival Service @ St Peter’s Church, Hepworth.
Sunday, 1st September @ 1500
Everyone’s Welcome -please join as we celebrate God’s goodness.… Read the whole story
Letter from the Rectory
Dear friends,
As I write this letter in the middle of June on a cold grey and rainy day the thought of Summer and summer time seems to still be far way.… Read the whole story
June Letter from the Rectory
Dear Friends and Neighbours,
This month on 16th June it is Father’s Day. For many it’s a time to celebrate and be thankful for their father and the father figures in their lives but for others it’s a day that some really struggle with …for all kinds of reasons.… Read the whole story
Church Yard Clean Up
Saturday, 11th May 2024 @ 0930
Sausage sandwiches provided!
Contact Jane on 01359 250 347 to offer help.
Choral visitors to St Peter’s, Hepworth
April was a busy month for St Peter’s in Hepworth. King’s College Cambridge is the patron of this church and one Lent evening in April the King’s Voices choir, lead by Ralph Woodward came to sing Evensong.… Read the whole story
Parallel Thoughts?
In recent weeks we have celebrated the Rising of the Son as well as witnessing the increasing influence of the sun as new growth emerges and unfolds.… Read the whole story
A letter from the Rectory – April 2023
Dear Friends & Neighbours,
I love a good story …don’t you?
I grew up loving Beauty and the Beast, C.S Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and the Last Battle and I love the classics like Pride and Prejudice, and Emma and then there’s The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings… and The Shawshank Redemption… and so many more; some of them are stories I’ve read, some of them are films I’ve watched.… Read the whole story
Hepworth Village Quiz Night
NOTE CHANGE OF DATE!
Friday 21st April 2023 at 1930
Hepworth Pavilion
£3.50 per person – teams of up to 6.
Please call 01359 250 347 to book a table.… Read the whole story
King’s Voices Choir
St Peter’s Church, Hepworth
Please join us for
Choral Evensong
Sunday, 26th March at 6:00pm
Revd Dr Stephen Cherry, Dean of Kings’s College, Cambridge will lead the service,
with the King’s Voices Choir, directed by Ralph Woodward.… Read the whole story
A Letter from the Rectory : February 2023
Dear Friends
I’m writing this letter in the middle of January and it’s wet and cold and grey outside. I’ve just spent half an hour on my exercise bike desperately trying to keep my New Year’s resolution to get fit going… and it’s hard.… Read the whole story
Hepworth Flower Festival
The weekend of 24th -25th September saw St Peter’s Church full of colour, when 17 flower arrangers produced wonderful decorations on the theme of ‘Harvest’.… Read the whole story
Letter from Rev Cathy
Dear Friends & Neighbours, Having helped in Media Studies Classes at Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham for many years I always wait with anticipation for the Christmas adverts to arrive.… Read the whole story
Letter from Rev. Cathy Bladen
Dear Friends & Neighbours,
As we head into Autumn, I’m reminded of the words from Ecclesiastes 3:1-13 that were read at the Queen’s Service of Remembrance at Edinburgh Cathedral;
‘There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot…’
For me as a Christian, Autumn with its harvest of crops and fruits is a wonderful reminder that no matter what is happening in the world the seasons keep turning and there is always hope of new things and times to come… even if in the moment we find it hard to feel the hope.… Read the whole story
From the Benefice – A letter from Andrew Bladen A church Lay Elder
We are approaching holiday season again, perhaps a time to go away, or to simply holiday at home, perhaps taking time to go to the beach or simply to go out for walks.… Read the whole story